Combined rail-brace and tie-plate



(No Model.)

0. T. SCHOBN. COMBINED RAIL BEACH AND TIE PLATE.

No. 509,607. Patented Nov. 28, 1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES T. SCHOEN, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED RAlL-BRACE AND TIE-PLATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 509,607, dated November 28, 1893. Application filed August 7, 1893. $en'al No. 482,494. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES T. ScHoEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Allegheny, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania,haveinventeda certain new and useful Improvement in a Combined Rail- Brace and Tie-Plate, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of thisinvention is to provide a combined rail-brace and tie-plate for securing and laterally bracing the rails of railroad tracks.

Prior to my invention, rail-braces and tieplates have been made integral, as castings, and otherwise, and have been made separate and secured together.

In my invention,I make the rail-brace and the tie-plate in one piece by die-pressing, as I will proceed now more particularly to set forth and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating my invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2is a side elevation, showing the invention applied to a rail, which is shown in section. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the parts shown in Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the combined rail-brace and tie-plate, looking from the righthand side of the sheet.

a is the rail-brace, and b is the tie-plate, which, in accordance with my invention, are made of a single piece. The rail-brace a is bent up from the tie-plate b, and the adjacent portions are parallel, as shown at 0, while the brace proper is turned up at a suitable angle and terminates in an abutment a, which fits against the vertical edge of the web of the rail and is provided with an outwardly-turned abutment ad, which fits up underneath the head of the rail. In order to reinforce and strengthen this brace laterally and in the direction of its length, I provide a central rib or projection a extending from the base a and terminating in the abutment a Any number of such projections may be pro vided. The tie-plate is provided with holes a for the reception of the spikes for fastening the device in position upon the ties. The foot of the brace is preferably bent up at a, in order to fit over the bottom of the base of the rail.

The conformation of the brace and of the tie-plate will be adapted to the kind of rail for which the article is to be used.

I prefer to construct my combined railbrace and tie-plate of plate metal, particularly steel plate, and to form the samein dies.

A combined rail-brace and tie-plate constrncted in accordance with the foregoing description has many obvious advantages of strength, facility of application and endurance.

What I claim is- 1. Acoinbined rail-brace and tie-plate made of a single piece of wrought metal and having the rail-brace bent up from the tie-plate at an angle, and having an abutment a to fit the web and another abutment a to fit the under side of the head of the rail, and provided with a longitudinal projection or strengthening rib rising from the tie-plate and terminating in the abutment a substantially as described.

2. The within described rail-brace and tieplate, composed of the brace at having the web abutment a, and the outwardly projecting head abutment a the longitudinal projection a rising from the tie-plate and continuing throughoutthe brace and its two abutments, and foot-receiving cavities a, and the tie-plate b, all constructed of a single piece of wrought metal, shaped by die-pressing, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 5th day of August, A. D. 1893.

CHARLES T. SGHOEN.

Witnesses:

J. T. MILNER, AD. JUDAL. 

